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Longtime CNN host Jim Sciutto will not appear on his weekly morning show for some time after he was reportedly ordered to take “personal leave.”

A media source told the Chron that Sciutto would be taking time off from the network after the host failed to appear on Tuesday or Wednesday’s episodes of CNN Newsroom. Sciutto’s latest article was published on Monday.

Last month, The Daily Beast’s Confider reported that Sciutto was the subject of an internal CNN investigation earlier in the year after suffering a “bad fall” in Amsterdam.

According to the September exclusive report, Sciutto had returned home from a reporting trip to Ukraine to cover the Russian invasion when the incident took place.

“Although colleagues took direct flights home from Poland, Sciutto and his producer made a stopover in the Dutch capital, where the accident happened. We understand Sciutto has since recovered from the incident but was instructed by CNN to address a “personal situation,” Confider said.

Sciutto traveled to Ukraine in February, March and April this year.

May 1st, Sciutto posted a photo of Polandwhere CNN correspondents were flown out after covering the war.

Whenever I enter Poland from Ukraine, I think: Why shouldn’t Ukrainians want something similar? It is freer, richer and safer than Russia under NATO. Ukraine has repeatedly elected presidents seeking closer ties with the West. This is a fact that Putin will not accept. And now Europe is at war. pic.twitter.com/OwIGhScVgV

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 1, 2022

CNN has had a tumultuous year. Chris Cuomo has been fired from the network for allegedly helping his brother, disgraced Governor Andrew Cuomo, with his scandals. Jeff Zucker resigned as CNN president just weeks later after having an affair with an executive.

On Monday, former President Donald Trump filed a $475 million lawsuit against the media outlet after alleging that the network ran a “slander and defamation campaign” against him.

The famous Picota prison in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. 24 April 2017. EEIM

Colombian prisons are not “leisure clubs”: The Colombian administration has opened an investigation after a week-long party with musicians and alcohol in abundance at the famous Picota prison in Bogota. “This type of party, this behavior, the entry of alcohol, electronic devices, etc. is repeated and for this very reason yesterday we launched a disciplinary inspection at the Picota facility,” said Javier Sarmiento, prosecutor for the control of officers, on Wednesday October 5th.

According to Mr. Sarmiento, the detainees celebrated from September 19 to 26 in the quarters reserved for future deportees. In particular, in videos released by the Colombian press, we can see two famous Vallenato singers (a local musical genre) pushing the song into the microphone in front of prisoners drinking beer and alcohol sitting in a prison gym.

These parties were apparently organized with the consent of the administration. But the musicians who performed there must “declare under oath who hired them, how much they were paid, the terms of their contract, if there was one,” explained Mr. Sarmiento. “Changes will be implemented in prisons where Inpec [l’administration pénitentiaire] does not maintain its control,” read the press release, which announced the automatic resignation of Picota’s current director and the appointment of a replacement.

Arsenal of partygoers

A surprise search was conducted inside the prison and found 122 cell phones, thirty internet modems, five tablets, three projectors, four smart watches, nineteen speakers, eleven TV decoders, 184 bottles of spirits, whiskey, tequila and champagne.

In addition, in areas where they were not allowed, nine large-screen televisions, seventeen freezers, five refrigerators, twenty-five electric stoves, nine blenders…

Back in March, the government of outgoing President Ivan Duque (2018-2022) fired the head of prison administration and then director of Picota for illegally issuing exit permits to a businessman accused of paying bribes to a multinational corporation.

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That same month, a dangerous drug dealer known by the alias “Matamba,” a member of the feared Clan del Golfo wanted for extradition by the United States, fled La Picota with the alleged complicity of guards. He was finally killed by the security forces in May.

Since then, four directors have succeeded at the helm of Picota. “Unfortunately, we see people being changed, fired and suspended, but this cycle of corruption within prison institutions is cyclical,” Attorney General Sarmiento said.

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Jair Bolsonaro (Portal)

It is the first poll to be released following the surprising results of the first round Dispute about the collected data from demographic companies so far from reality. To the ipecwhose polls were commissioned by the powerful communications group Globo, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would have 51% intending to vote against 43% by Jair Messiah Bolsonaro. If you count the valid votes, Lula would have it 55% against him Four five% of the President.

This poll is very similar to the one on Saturday night, A few hours before the polling stations openas the main national media announced the last two election polls in excitement and pomp.

No one could have imagined that pollsters would go from fame to hell so quickly. Datafolha, one of the best-known polling companies owned by the same group that owns Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, named Lula the front-runner on Saturday fifty% of votes before Bolsonaro, who was in 36%a difference of 14 points in line with their polls from the past few weeks.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Portal/Carla Carniel)

That ipec He had even given the former president the winner at 51%, compared to 37% for Bolsonaro. But even 24 hours later, those numbers didn’t contradict reality: Lula found himself in a close neck-and-neck race that ended with 48.43% for him and 43.2% for the president, a difference of just 43 .2% 5 percentage points. It is about one political earthquake not anticipated by analysts who instead focused to the end on the risk that a sharp escalation of violence triggered by a possible accusation of fraud choice by Bolsonaro.

For example, in the last few hours, Attorney General Anderson Torres has announced that instead of the January 6-style attack on the institutional buildings in the USA, the federal police will launch investigations into the research institutes. “Nothing beats a police investigation to determine whether some of these institutions are a crime or collusive‘ the minister said at a press conference.

Brazilians wait for a vote in Curitiba (Portal/Rodolfo Buhrer)

22 MPs have also signed a petition to the Senate Opening of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into this issue. A minimum of 27 signatures are required for the application to be accepted. The bill was introduced by the Senator Marcos do Valfrom the centre-right party allowed to. In the past few days, the Minister of Communications, Fábio Faria, described as “not polite‘ the mistakes of pollsters and urged Bolsonaro’s voters They will boycott the questions by not answering them.

“The publication of polls as a weapon of vote-rigging should be banned. We will not allow institutes to do harm. I ask everyone not to answer their questions,” he said on social media. On Sunday, when he left the electoral college in which he had voted, Bolsonaro himself reiterated that “the Datapovo”, i.e. the will of the people, counts and played with the name of the polling institute Datafolha.

Lula fighters after the results were disseminated (Portal/Diego Vara)

When the results came out, his first statement was “we won the lie’ and then attacked the voting institutes directly. “I think that this time they were discredited,” he told the journalists present, “all of which served to bring votes to the other side.” In Brazil, the law allows polls to be published up until the day before the vote. In other countries, such as Italy or Argentina, elections are banned weeks or days before the elections to avoid any possibility of interference, and the polling institutes do not belong to media-related groups, as is the case in Brazil Datafolha.

The directors of the institutes now involved in the dispute have tried to explain this surprising discrepancy between your data and the end result, sometimes even giving the impression of excuses. “In our opinion, voters made a strategic decision to anticipate a possible second ballot and prevent the election from ending on the first,” Márcia Cavallari, director of Ipec, told Globo TV.

A supporter of Jair Bolsonaro after the elections (Portal / Adriano Machado)

The director of DatafolhaLuciana Chong also suggested a similar explanation. “We saw that in the poll on Saturday 13% of voters said they could change their mind about voting. Among Ciro’s voters was this rate 41% and among those of Simone Tebet the 37%. In the end, the useful vote was not in favor of Lula, but in favor of Bolsonaro,” Chong said.

It was about that helpful voice that Lula had pushed hard in his first-round campaign, provoking the candidate’s ire Cyrus Gomes, the Labor Democratic Party, which suggested the possibility of a third route to Lula/Bolsonaro polarization. “I feel like a victim of annihilation,” Gomes had said, “there is no respect, there is no shame, they really are Nazis,” the PT said. “Voters are disoriented by hate,” he added, but they must vote “against communism and against fascism.” On Tuesday, Gomes quietly retired and He accepted without controversy his party’s decision to endorse Lula for the second round.

The cover of a newspaper shows Sunday’s results (Portal / Pilar Olivares)

Hence the unknown role of the ballot box second Lap of the elections, which will lead to the decisive vote on October 30th. Beyond the declarations of the demographic company managers, it is very likely that the quality of the surveys is affected by the use of outdated databases. The last census in Brazil dates from 2010, which was planned for 2020 was canceled due to the Covid epidemic. After all, both the polls and Lula’s campaign strategists paid little attention to the fact that the number of Pentecostal Evangelicals – over which one of the main battles is now being fought to oust the crucial votes from Bolsonaro to Lula – has most likely increased compared to those declared at the last census when they were 42.275.440.

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As a sign against Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, the heads of state and government of almost all European countries will meet in Prague on Thursday. The first meeting of the so-called “European Political Community” aims to bring together the 27 EU member states and non-EU European countries “in a spirit of unity”. The new format dates back to an initiative by French President Emmanuel Macron.

No concrete resolutions are planned, security policy, the economic situation, energy and climate, as well as migration and mobility are discussed. On Friday, an informal EU summit in Prague will address the European response to the illegal annexations of Ukrainian territories announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Critical infrastructure protection and economic development are also on the agenda. Austria is represented by Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP).

WASHINGTON US intelligence United States believe members of the Ukrainian government authorized the deadly attack Daria DuginaDaughter of the ideologue Alexander Dugin, Putin’s guru, in August. If the fact is confirmed, this is part of a secret action by Ukrainians and could aggravate the war with Russia.

US officials did not say which government officials authorized the mission, who carried out the attack, or whether the Ukrainian president, Volodmyr Zelenskyywould have known.

The approval of state officials was shared within the US government last week. The US government was unaware of the fact, but after the alleged involvement was discovered it reportedly reprimanded the Ukrainians. How Ukraine reacted is not known.

Shortly after the assassination, Ukraine denied involvement in the bombing. In addition, highranking authorities in the country repeatedly reiterated their denials in surveys.

The picture shows Russian investigators at the spot where the vehicle that Daria Dugina was in exploded on August 21 this year.

While Russia is not taking direct retaliation for the assassination, the United States fears that such attacks — though highly symbolic — could provoke Moscow to attack senior Ukrainian officials. US officials have been frustrated by Ukraine’s lack of transparency about its military and secret plans, particularly on Russian soil.

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Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine’s security services have proven their ability to reach Russia to conduct sabotage operations. However, Dugina’s assassination would be one of the boldest operations yet and shows that Ukraine can get very close to prominent Russians.

Some US officials suspect that Dugina’s father, Alexander Dugin, a Russian ultranationalist and leading advocate of an aggressive, imperialist Russia, was the real target of the operation. Authorities said the perpetrators believed he was in the vehicle with his daughter.

Secret plans of Ukraine

While the Pentagon and US spy services have shared classified battlefield intelligence with Ukrainians to help them focus on Russian command posts, supply lines and other key targets, Ukrainians have not always told US officials what to do.

The United States has pressured Ukraine to say more about its war plans. At the start of the war, US officials acknowledged that, thanks to their intense espionage efforts, they often knew more about Russian war plans than Kiev’s intentions.

Since then, information cooperation between the two countries has increased. A few months ago, for example, Ukraine shared with the United States and Britain its plans for the military counteroffensive developed in September.

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US officials also do not have a full picture of the Ukrainian government’s internal squabbling, which includes the military, security services and Zelenskyy’s cabinet a fact that suggests some sections of the Ukrainian government may be unaware of their involvement in Dugina’s assassination .

Asked about the information from US intelligence on Tuesday, April 4, Mikhailo Podoliak, one of the most active advisers to the President of Ukraine, reiterated his involvement in Dugina’s assassination. “I want to reiterate that every wartime assassination in one country or another must have some practical significance,” Podoliak told the New York Times. “It has to serve a specific tactical or strategic purpose. Someone like Dugina is not a tactical or strategic target for Ukraine,” he added.

“We have other targets on the territory of Ukraine,” continued Podoliak, “I mean collaborators and Russian commando representatives who might be of value to members of our special services working on this program, but certainly not Dugina.”

While details of acts of sabotage in Russiancontrolled territory are unknown, the Ukrainian government tacitly admits its involvement in the assassination of Russian officials in Ukraine and the sabotage of Russian factories and weapons depots.

Alexander Dugin and daughter Daria

A senior Ukrainian military official said on condition of anonymity that Ukrainian forces, with the help of local fighters, carried out attacks and assassinations on suspected Ukrainian collaborators and Russian officials in the occupied Ukrainian territories. Among them is, for example, the chief assigned by Russia to look after the occupied Kherson region, who was poisoned in August and had to go to Moscow for urgent treatment.

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Countries traditionally do not discuss other nations’ covert actions for fear of their own operations being exposed, but some US officials believe curbing what they see as dangerous adventurism, particularly political assassinations, is crucial.

The involvement did not affect USUkraine relations

Still, US officials have struggled in recent days to insist that ties between the two administrations remain strong. US concerns over Ukraine’s aggressive covert operations in Russia have not led to any known changes in the provision of intelligence, military and diplomatic support to the Zelenskyy government or Ukraine’s security services.

On Saturday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba that the Joe Biden administration “will continue to support Ukraine’s efforts to regain control of the territory by increasing military and diplomatic assistance.”

State Department, National Security Council, Pentagon and CIA officials declined to comment on the intelligence assessment.

Russia launched an investigation shortly after Dugina’s assassination and classified it as an act of terrorism. According to the Russian secret service FSB, the secret service of Ukraine was responsible.

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A day after the attack, the FSB said Ukrainian agents hired a Ukrainian woman who entered Russia in July, rented an apartment where Dugina lived and fled the country shortly after the attack.

Ilia Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian Duma who voted against the annexation of Crimea, claimed that a group of proUkrainian and antiPutin militants operating in Russia known as the National Republican Army were responsible for the assassination be responsible. Officials in Washington are skeptical of the Russian’s claims.